Research Article

Incorporating Adaptive Sparse Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Segmentation of Organs at Risk in Radiotherapy

Table 1

Comparison between the vanilla 3D U-Net and the network applied with the proposed ASGCN.

ROIDSC of 3D U-NetDSC of ASGCNHD of 3D U-NetHD of ASGCN

Constrictor naris0.75650.77222.19131.7650
Eyes0.87910.89512.07781.1163
Lens0.61600.64954.64142.4956
Optic nerves0.60770.64182.55212.3080
Temporal lobes0.85950.86903.01742.1383
Thyroids0.78260.80892.90002.0280

The upward and downward arrows indicate that the higher and lower are better, respectively. The bold value denotes better performance.